Word: flights
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...footer with blue eyes, greying hair, lean frame. He hunts, fishes, rides when he has the chance (although always an infantryman), devours history and biography. He loathes big Army parties, prefers to go picnicking with his second wife and her children. On duty he is severe, demands top-flight work in short hours. "Nobody ever has an original thought after 3 p. m.," he says...
...Whalen the civic leader shows in prints of old New York, Whalen the horseman in a framed blue-ribbon, Whalen the family man in a group shot of his attractive wife and three children. And the gadgets display the Whalen flair for imaginative showmanship. Each step in one flight of stairs is a drawer. A flick of the hand converts part of his bar into a spare...
...published in Liberty another serial about his wife's disappearance; 3) learned that Mother-in-Law Amy Otis Earhart, 61, was getting ready to move from Boston, Mass, to Berkeley, Calif, so she could be near the spot (Oakland) where her daughter took off on her last flight...
...transcontinental light-plane record: 23 hours and 26 minutes, an average of 110 m.p.h. Cost of the trip, exclusive of sandwiches, coffee and depreciation: $27.15. Result: a fat sheaf of inquiries from pilots, to some of whom Monocoupe hopes to sell airplanes. Said satisfied Mr. Bunch: "I made the flight for my own satisfaction...
...Hearst businessman at the head of the Hearst empire would do even more to restore its standing and stability. Last week Judge Shearn found his businessman. John St. Clair Brookes Jr., though almost unknown to the U. S. at large, has already become a power in three top-flight corporations...